Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. The blog of the week is actually a two-for-one. We will discuss an update to a previous blog entry, here. After that, we will discuss a decision from a Colorado appellate court clarifying the rules with
I hope those that celebrated had a happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas, happy new year, and happy holidays to everyone.
Today’s blog entry is my top 11 or so for the year. As is my past practice, I have included important blog entries that do not make the list . Most of those though were
Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I wanted to give everyone a heads up as to the blogging schedule for the rest of the calendar year. My daughter comes home for a three week break on December 13, so we have this blog this week. I will also have a blog
Sometimes I just don’t know until the last minute as to what case I will blog on for the week. I originally thought I would blog on a religious accommodation case. Then, this morning I saw a Fifth Circuit decision involving mandatory reassignment. Right when I was finishing up reading that decision, I saw an
This blog entry discusses just what is an IDEA FAPE anyway. It is a Sixth Circuit published decided on January 4, 2023, in the case of Doe v. Knox County Board of Education, here. As usual the blog is divided into categories and they are: key facts taken directly from the opinion; issues presented;
Today’s blog entry is the blog entry that I was going to do last week until the EEOC guidance on hearing disabilities in the workplace intervened. That particular guidance was the most personal one that I have ever written. Today, we go back to a more traditional type of blog entry. On January 18, 2023,
Let’s say you have a situation where you have a severely autistic individual, a person with Tourette’s, dyslexia, or some kind of severe learning disability, all of which can lead to anger when the person gets frustrated. To be clear, I am not saying that all persons with disabilities are prone to anger more so
Usually at this time of year, my last blog entry is devoted to the greatest hits for the year. However, for this year the data points are a bit mixed up because I moved my blog platform to the Lex Blog platform halfway through the year. So, I don’t have data for the whole year.
We now have a new Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. For those interested in how she might rule on disability rights matters, see this blog entry1821206969198. Today’s blog entry came to me from my involvement with the Federal Bar Association civil rights section. Caryl Oberman, a Pennsylvania attorney